Useful Links
- University of Virginia
- Charlottesville and Environs
- Academic and Scientific Issues
- General Medicine
- Handheld Computing (PDAs) in Medicine
- Neurology
- Information About Residencies
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University of Virginia
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- The Cavalier Daily The online newspaper gives a current picture of student life at UVa
- Neuroscience Graduate Program
- Psychology Department
- RotundaCam, a continuously updated live camera shot of "The Lawn"
- School of Medicine
- University of Virginia Main Homepage
- University of Virginia Health System Main Homepage
Charlottesville and Environs
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- Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society
- Albemarle County Public Schools
- The Boar's Head Inn, a Country Resort
- Business and Services Directory - InCharlottesville.com
- Central Virginia's Community Online
- Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport (CHO)
- Charlottesvillle-Albemarle Chamber of Commerce
- Charlottesville Tourism
- Charlottesville Guide
- Charlottesville Churches
- Charlottesville City Schools
- Charlottesville City Parks
- Charlottesville Yellow Pages
- CineVille (Movies in Charlottesville)
- City of Charlottesville Website
- The Daily Progress (newspaper)
- Family Field Guide to Charlottesville and Beyond - the web companion to an excellent book on family friendly life around Charlottesville
- Greene County Government
- Jefferson-Madison Regional Library
- League of Women Voters of Charlottesville/Albemarle
- Town of Louisa
- Michie Tavern
- Monticello Avenue (A Community Information Server)
- Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson
- Montpelier, the home of James Madison
- Piedmont Virginia Community College
- Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission
- Virginia Discovery Museum
- Virginia Outdoor Recreation Guide at GORP.com
- Waynesboro-Augusta County Chamber of Commerce
- WCVE Public Radio and Television (Richmond)
- WHTJ Public Television (Charlottesville)
- WINA News Talk Radio (Chartlottesville)
- WMRA Public Radio (Charlottesville)
- WVIR NBC 29 TV (Charlottesville)
- Yahoo! Charlottesville
- Yahoo! Interactive Map of Charlottesville
Academic and Scientific Issues
General Medicine
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- ACLS.net, help preparing for ACLS
- Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR)
- Association of American Medical Colleges - Organizes almost every aspect medical education
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Medscape, a guide to medical information on the internet
- National Health Information Center
- National Institutes of Health
- National Organization for Rare Disorders
- NCBI/OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
- Reuter's Health Information
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Visible Human Project from N.L.M.
Handheld Computing (PDAs) in Medicine
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- GENERAL SITES
- Ectopic Brain, Created by residents and attendings at the Riverside family practice residency associated with Virginia Commonwealth University, this site is designed to help residents locate programs, files, and other resources in order to make the most of their Palm devices.
- handheldmed.com, a comprehensive source of information for physicians, residents, medical students, and healthcare professionals using handheld computers.
- pdaMD.com , a cross-platform site dedicated to handheld computing in medicine.
- Handheld resources compiled by the Oregon Health Sciences University medicine program.
- Palm Pilot Page, "high yield-must-have-bare bones" links from the Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program at Baylor College of Medicine.
- Washington University Medical Palm Initiative
- Web Sites for Palm PDA Users from UCLA.
- Burdie's Medical Palm Site, gives advice, links, and memopad items from an internal medicine resident
- Dr. B's PDA, a family practitioner's page of home-grown Palm OS applications and links.
- Healthy PalmPilot
- Malaysian Medical PalmPilot Page, by a Malaysian physician.
- PocketPsych, resources for mental health professionals using the Palm and various medical applications.
- RNpalm, Nursing and Medical PDA Software and Hardware
- SPECIFIC SOFTWARE ITEMS
- Current Clinical Strategies Series. FREE. The complete set of CCS pocket books in a PalmTM-friendly format.
- ePocrates qRx. FREE. A huge, wonderful, powerful, popular drug reference program.
- Tarascon Pharmacopoeia Free 30 day trial. An electronic version of the popular pocket drug reference book.
- MedCalc. FREE. A medical calculator designed for rapid calculation of common equations used in medicine.
- Shots 2.2. FREE. A quick reference to the 2001 Harmonized Immunization Schedule. Details on each vaccine are available by clicking on the vaccine names and Info buttons. More details available on the Shots page.
- Patient Communications. Differential diagnosis mnemonics pocket book and Palm note file
- Acid-Base Nomogram. FREE. A representation of the classic nomogram for diagnosing acid-base disturbances.
- Coronary Angiograms. FREE. Diagram of the coronary vasculature as commonly viewed on coronary angiograms.
- Hexaxial System for determining electrical vectors on EKG. FREE.
- Marik's Primer of Differential Diagnosis, Updated 12/17/00. Courtesy of Dr. Paul Marik, this manual can serve as an aid for teaching rounds and morning report and for evaluating the differential diagnoses of clinical findings.
- ABG Pro. FREE. This program helps interpret blood gases. You plug in the data, it tells you whether you have a metabolic or respiratory acidosis or alkalosis, calculate expected PCO2 and expected HCO3, tell you if there is a concominant acid-base disorder, calculate Anion Gap and Delta-Delta, etc..
- Stat ICD-9 Coder $29. All 15,000 ICD-9 codes with interactive menu that searches by code or diagnosis.
- Stat CPT Coder $50. All CPT codes with interactive menu that searches by code or diagnosis.
Neurology
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- CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE
- AHCPR Post-Stroke Rehabilitation (Clinical Guide)
- American Stroke Association
- Aneurysm Information Project
- National Stroke Association
- NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
- AHCPR Recovering After a Stroke Guide (Consumer Guide)
- The Internet Stroke Center at Washington University in St. Louis
- EPILEPSY
- The Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center
- American Epilepsy Society
- EEG Course and Glossary
- Epilepsy.com
- Epilepsy Foundation of America
- BEHAVIORAL NEUROLOGY
- A long goodbye
- Alzheimer Association
- Alzheimer Research Forum
- Blindsight Demonstration
- Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging
- Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania
- Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
- Cognitive Neuroscience Society
- Dementia Research Group, England
- International Neuropsychological Society (INS)
- Lewy-Net: Dementia with Lewy Bodies
- Learning Services Neurorehabilitation
- National Aphasia Association
- Neuropsychology Central
- WUSTL Alzheimer Page
- MOVEMENT DISORDERS
- Dystonia Medical Research Foundation
- Huntington's Disease Society of America
- Movement Disorders Society
- National Parkinson Foundation
- NINDS Dystonias Information Page
- NINDS Huntington's Disease Research
- Tourette Syndrome FAQ
- Facts about Tourette Syndrome
- We Move: Movement Disorders worldwide education and awareness
- NEUROMUSCULAR
- ALS Association
- ALS Information
- American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine
- American Society of Neurophysiological Monitoring
- CMTnet: Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Information Exchange
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth International
- Guillain-Barré Syndrome Foundation International
- Muscular Dystrophy Associaton of Australia
- World Federation of Neurology ALS Site
- NEURO-ONCOLOGY
- HEADACHE & PAIN
- NEURO-IMMUNOLOGY
- Hereditary Biochemical Multiple Sclerosis Page
- Multiple Sclerosis Crossroads by Aapo Halko
- Myelin Project
- NEURO-OPHTHALMOLOGY
- PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY
- Autism Resources
- Cerebral Palsy at Virtual Children's Hospital
- Child Neurology Society
- Dyslexia 2000 Network
- NEURO-OTOLOGY
- Acoustic Neuroma Association
- Acoustic Neuroma Resources
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- Meniere page
- Troost's Neuro-Ontology at iVertigo.net
- Vestibular Disorders Association
- INFECTION
- Neuro Infection at Neuroland.com
- Iowa CNS Infectious Disease Page
- SLEEP
- NEUROANATOMY, NEURORADIOLOGY, NEUROPATHOLOGY
- ASNR: American Society of Neuroradiology
- AJNR: American Journal of Neuroradiology
- Brigham and Woman's radiology
- fMRI UCSD Information Page
- The Functional MRI Data Center
- A laboratory of fMRI at Columbia University
- The Human Brain: Dissection, from the University of Iowa's Virtual Hospital.
- McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
- A Primer on MRI and Functional MRI (PDF)
- Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
- Utah CNS pathology images
- Whole Brain Atlas
- NEUROSURGERY
- MISCELLANEOUS
- American Academy of Neurology
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- ACGME
- American Neurological Association
- Association of University Professors of Neurology (AUPN)
- Frequently Asked Questions about Neurologic Problems
- Neuroscience Links, maintained by the Neuroscience Program at Florida State University
- Neuroguide.com, Neurosciences on the Internet
- Neurologic Eye Simulator
- Neurotrauma Law Nexus
- Neuroscience-Net
- NINDS of NIH
- Society for Neuroscience
- UNC Neuroscience Center
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- Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
- CareerMD.com, a compendium of information for medical career planning geared toward residents and medical students.
- National Residency Matching Program
- San Francisco Matching Program for residency programs in neurology, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and palstic surgery, and fellowships in related fields.